"Don't fight forces, use them"
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Then scratch (at least most of) # 6 off this list:
10 Psychology Tricks You Can Use To Influence People
http://listverse.com/2013/02/03/10-psychology-tricks-you-can-use-to-influence-people/ ... :)

7o years old to this date^ ;)

Of great importance to the public is the preservation of this personal liberty; for if once it were left in the power of any the highest magistrate to imprison arbitrarily whomever he or his officers thought proper, (as in France it is daily practised by the crown,) there would soon be an end of all other rights and immunities. Some have thought that unjust attacks, even upon life or property, at the arbitrary will of the magistrate, are less dangerous to the commonwealth than such as are made upon the personal liberty of the subject. To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole kingdom; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government.– William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1753)

No matter what substance a human being gets addicted to; the reason is always that human being's desire to keep on living a lie, day after day 24/7!! When that human being decides to finally face the reality of the lie that they are living; recovery then becomes possible!! Some call it " hitting bottom " when one realizes that their addictive behavior is going to result in their death!! The easiest person to deceive is the one living inside of you!!-Cousin Lucky

“Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the body than alcohol when used on a regular basis (Google “Science”).”―Nick Offerman

“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.”―Bob Marley

~\.bashrcOpining my terminal popped this out:I instantly thought the 'we came from Tinkerbell if we believe hard enough megathread' but who wants to beat a decaying Tyrannosaurus! :p

Add:

In past ages, those who dared to speak out against tyranny—viewed as an act of treason—were blinded, castrated, disfigured, mutilated, rendered mute by having their tongues cut out of their heads, and ultimately crucified.

In the American police state, the price to be paid for speaking truth to power (also increasingly viewed as an act of treason) is surveillance, censorship, jail and ultimately death.

It’s a diabolically ingenious tactic for muzzling, disarming and ultimately eliminating one’s critics or potential adversaries.-John W. Whitehead

Psychologists: the weathermen of science. --Me

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises.– Izaak Walton

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -Benjamin Franklin

"monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men." -Charles Darwin

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." -Einstein

“The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.” - Galileo

“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.” -Galileo

"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time." -Leonardo da Vinci

Thanks, Jamison!!

Power – far more than fact – determines what is defined as true in America, a nation that has become dangerously disconnected from reality in matters both trivial and important.-Robert Parry

Thank you, too!!

"A lock that is opened by many keys is not a good lock"

"Roses grow in darkness"

"An error that ascribes to a man what was actually the work of a woman has more lives than a cat."
— Hertha Marks Ayrton

An unbiased opinion? :scratch: LOL :p